THE FANCY FAIR.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3520, 19 October 1882, Page 2

THE FANCY FAIR.

[To the Editor of the Daily Telegeaph.] Sih,—As an old Lutheran—as one who remembers the simple faith taught in the days of my childhood—will you allow me a small corner in your paper in ©rder that I might express my opinion about the Fancy Fair. Iα the Daily Telegraph of Wednesday I find a " Wesleyan " making an attack upon his old church, and I really sympathise with him when he says " he may be wrong," " he may have stood still while the great world moved 0n. ,. If this friend would or.en his classics I think that he will find the proverb, Temporo mutantur ct nos mute mor in Mis. I should not have taken this matter up if "Wesleyan" had left alone what he calls " a fashion to do these things by the churches of all religious persuasions." Now, I, as a Lutheran, should be very sorry to mislead a " Wesleyan," first because Luther lived a long while before Wealey, and secondly because Wesley was pretty nearly Lutber'a follower, What a dull place New Zealand must have been thirty years ago in the locality where " Wesleyan" was reared, where there was no dancing allowed on the part of a " true Wesleyan's daughter !" How economical everything must have been made, and still his confreres have been obliged to let their offspring get up a "Fancy Fair" in order to assist the finances of a congregation. Come down Brother " Wesleyan " and see Punch and Judy, and if you cannot come send your children or grandchildren ; they will tell you if they like it or not, and when they grow old they will let their children go and give a share of their time and money to these entertainments, that will prove to be a financial success, and which you will only dream about over the newspaper sitting in your arm-chair.—l ara, &c, Lutheran. October 19, 1882.